Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Times, for four years was a kind of daily TIME, giving to each item of news that background and elucidation necessary for comprehension-or entertainment. Now, ten years later, American newspapers are discovering the value of the formula and hailing it as a discovery. The Paris Times was a pioneer in the daily field, as TIME was a pioneer in the weekly field...
Clara Driscoll, 58, is the restless, magnetic daughter of a pioneer Texas land baron who left an estate now valued at $10,000,000. She is president of one Corpus Christi bank, largest stockholder of another. She is known as "The Savior of the Alamo" because she once put up $65,000 (later repaid by the State) to keep commercial structures away from Texas' shrine. By the time she married Newspaperman Hal Sevier in 1906, Clara Driscoll had written two novels (The Girl of La Gloria, In the Shadow of the Alamo) and a musical comedy (Mexicana)* which...
Bones in the Sky. Short, shaggy Dr. Charlie was a pioneer in goiter operations and surgery of the nervous system. Lacking the brilliance of Cleveland's George Washington Crile, the originality of Yale's Harvey Gushing, he ranked, by hard work and versatility, among the best U. S. surgeons...
Since then Nelson Rockefeller has thought of art, and now thinks of the Museum of Modern Art, as a quality of style that can just as well pervade as it can be at odds with modern commercial society. He is proud of the pioneer work the Museum has done, prouder that "last year our traveling shows were exhibited in over 250 cities and towns. . . ." He admires the great art collectors but has not emulated them. He buys sculpture for his desk (last week he had a woodcarving by William Steig), paintings for his walls, wishes that all men could...
...years ago, Omaha's town fathers agreed to commemorate both events with a Golden Spike celebration. Some 20,000 Omahans joined "whiskers clubs" to act as unpaid extras, Omaha's obliging womenfolk togged themselves out in 1869 costumes, Omaha's stores and bars were flimflammed with pioneer signs and doodads. The school board decreed two Golden Spike holidays. Omaha's Roman Catholic Bishop James Hugh Ryan dispensed his flock from eating fish on Friday. Fearing that its press-agentry would be submerged in the civic celebrations, Paramount loaded Barbara Stanwyck and some of Union Pacific...